• Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Six months of Trump’s war on the press

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders

    This exchange of ideas, tactics, and rhetorical techniques to attack the press has created an apparent authoritarian feedback loop.

    Published On: 07/17/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    LA Journalists Reflect on Protest Attacks

    Freedom of the Press Foundation

    Freedom of the Press Foundation

    Journalists covering recent demonstrations in California have been assaulted, detained, shot with crowd-control munitions, and had their equipment searched — simply for doing their jobs.

    Published On: 07/11/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom

    ‘Media and Corporate Power Structures See Genuine Democracy as a Terrible Danger’

    Janine Jackson

    FAIR

    CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats

    Published On: 07/11/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S.

    Corey Hutchins

    NiemanLab

    The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.

    Published On: 07/10/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it

    Caitlin Vogus

    Freedom of Press Foundation

    While noncitizen journalists are the easiest targets for now, it’s abundantly clear that the government would like to criminalize journalists it doesn’t like, regardless of the journalists’ residency status.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety

    CPJ outraged at ICE refusal of judge’s order to release journalist Mario Guevara

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    The Spanish-language reporter is currently the only journalist in custody in the U.S. whose arrest was in relation to their work.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Prosecution Against Journalist Endangers Right To Gather News

    Kevin Gosztola

    The Dissenter

    The “government’s interpretation of the Wiretap Act would unleash frivolous litigation and make the Act a magnet for arbitrary and harassing enforcement actions in the future.”

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Social Media • Technology

    You’re Not Paranoid. The Surveillance State is Already Here

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    Essential to maintaining a resistance media capacity will be the ability to successfully wage a running battle with those entities that would seek to surveil, disrupt, censor and destroy opposition voices.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Human Rights • Press Freedom • Violence

    Press groups push DHS over potential First Amendment violations during LA protests

    BrieAnna J. Frank

    USA Today

    Press freedom organizations warn the Department of Homeland Security that federal officers “may have violated the First Amendment rights” of journalists covering protests.

    Published On: 06/11/2025

  • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Featured • Press Freedom • Recommended • Surveillance

    How a Small Investigative Team Is Fighting the Growing Cyber Surveillance Threat

    Rowan Philp

    Global Investigative Journalism Network

    The tide of sophisticated surveillance tools and their sinister applications is poised to overwhelm watchdogs, tech platforms, and regulators.

    Published On: 06/10/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Violence

    UN Human Rights Office condemns targeting journalists and attacks on hospitals

    UN Human Rights Office

    un.org

    Directing attacks against protected persons such as journalists is a violation of international humanitarian law and also constitutes a war crime.

    Published On: 06/06/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Recommended • Safety

    Committee to Protect Journalists: Safety Kit

    CPJ

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    Journalists should consider the following digital and physical safety advice to help better protect themselves.

    Published On: 06/03/2025

  • Featured • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended

    The Rise of State Media in Trump’s America

    Olga Lautman

    olgalautman.substack.com

    The White House launches a taxpayer-funded “news wire” to push state propaganda

    Published On: 05/15/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Pope Leo XIV asks journalists to use communication as a tool for peace

    Sarah Ventre

    NPR

    We must say 'no' to the war of words and images; we must reject the paradigm of war,"

    Published On: 05/12/2025

  • Press Freedom • Social Media

    Noise and Silence in Authoritarian Propaganda

    Ruth Ben-Ghiat

    Lucid

    How autocrats protect their claims to be the sole arbiters of truth

    Published On: 05/08/2025

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